Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de carrefour
Mouthiers-sur-Boëme, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de carrefour, au hameau de Gersac : inscription par arrêté du 13 juillet 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/07/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de chemin
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Gersac
- Commune
- Mouthiers-sur-Boëme
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.54812, 0.10530
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104437
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix du 17e siècle sur socle et fûts plus anciens. Le socle est rectangulaire, le fût à peu près cylindrique sauf à la base et au sommet. La croix est ornée, d'un côté, de la Crucifixion ; de l'autre, de la Vierge à l'Enfant.
English translation
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History
Cross of the 17th century on base and shafts of earlier date. The base is rectangular, the shaft approximately cylindrical except at the base and summit. The cross is ornamented, on one side, with the Crucifixion; on the other, with the Virgin and Child.
Nearby in the register
- Abri de la Chaire à Calvinabriunder 1 mi
- Château de la Rochandrychâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Hilaireéglise1 mi
- Logis de Forgemanoir1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.